Posts Tagged ‘review’

Art Prices (and Mood) Inch Back Up at Big Fall Auctions (NY Times) How to Conserve Art that Lives in a Lake:  Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (NY Times) ‘FallMauerFall 61-89-09’:  An Art Show Encompasses East Meets West: (WSJ) Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’ Revisited at the MET (WSJ) Art Review:  ‘Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years’ (LA Times) […]


Pop! An Empty Shop Fills with Art (NY Times) A Modern Artist Who Welded Both Pen and Brush (NY Times) ‘Personal Meditations’ on the Koran:  Sandow Birk (NY Times) The Travails of Plein Air Painting (WSJ) His Pictures Belie Lofty Words:  Jean Luc Mylayne  (WSJ) Van Gogh Hysteria, Kapoor’s Toothpaste Cannon:  Autumn Art Picks (Bloomberg) […]


Frescoes 101

28Aug09

by Emily Waldorf In light of the fascinating current Pompeii exhibition at LACMA, Pompeii and the Roman Villa, I thought it would be interesting to delve into frescoes.  Many people know what frescoes look like but few know how they are made. There is a common misconception that frescoes are made with oil-based paint when […]


How the Art World Memorialized the King of Pop (ARTINFO) The Rage to Buy Vanishing Art Works in London (NY Times – Global Edition) Dan Graham at Whitney:  A Round Peg (NY Times) In Chelsea, Art Intersects with Reality of Iranian Conflict (NY Times) Cai Guo-Qiang Turns Gunpowder into Art at Guggenheim Bilbao (WSJ) The […]